Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It’s as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.
WILLIAM GOLDINGTowards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
More William Golding Quotes
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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
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Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell.
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